General Awareness Prep – Part III – Heads of Important Organizations

General Awareness Prep – Part III – Heads of Important Organizations

When it comes to MBA entrance exams life CMAT, IIFT, SNAP, etc. the knowledge of the heads of important organizations is really helpful. More often than not, you will end up getting couple of questions on these. There is also a reasonable chance that you will get a question of Match-The-Following type where this information would be really useful.

I have compiled a list of the current heads of important bodies and divided into two parts: India & International. Both of them are given below. (F) indicates that the person is a female.

India:

Department / Position

Person

Attorney General of India

Goolam Essaji Vahanvati

Central Vigilance Commissioner

Pradeep Kumar

Chairman, ISRO

K Radhakrishnan

Chairman, LIC

D K Mehrotra

Chairman, NABARD

Prakash Bakshi

Chairman, NASSCOM

Natarajan Chandrasekaran

Chairman, National Knowledge Commission

Sam Pitroda

Chairman, Planning Commission

Manmohan Singh

Chairman, Press Council of India

Markandey Katju

Chairman, Press Trust of India

R Lakshmipathy

Chairman, SEBI

U K Sinha

Chairman, TRAI

Rahul Kullar

Chairman, UIDAI

Nandan Nilekani

Chief Economic Advisor

Raghuram Rajan

Chief Election Commissioner

V S Sampath

Chief Justice of India

Altamas Kabir

Chief of the Air Staff

Air Chief Marshall N A K Browne

Chief of the Army Staff

General Bikram Singh

Chief of the Naval Staff

Admiral D K Joshi

Comptroller and Auditor General

Vinod Rai

Defence Secretary

Shashi Kant Sharma

Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission

Montek Singh Ahluwalia

Director, BARC

Sekhar Basu

Director of the Enforcement Directorate

Rajan Katoch

Director, Intelligence Bureau

Syed Asif Ibrahim

Foreign Secretary

Ranjan Mathai

Governor, RBI

D. Subbarao

National Security Advisor

Shivshankar Menon

President, BCCI

N. Srinivasan

President, CII

Adi Godrej

President, FICCI

R V Kanoria

President, IOA

Abhay Singh Chautala

Principal Scientific Adviser

R Chidambaram

International:

Department / Position

Person

Commonwealth, Head

Queen Elizabeth II

Commonwealth, Secretary-General

Kamalesh Sharma

FIFA, President

Sepp Blatter

International Court of Justice, President

Peter Tomka

International Cricket Council, President

Alan Isaac

International Labor Organization (ILO), Director-General

Guy Ryder

International Monetory Fund (IMF), Managing Director

Christine Lagarde (F)

International Olympic Committee

Jacques Rogue

INTERPOL, President

Mireille Ballestrazzi (F)

INTERPOL, Secretary-General

Ronald Noble

NASA, Administrator

Charles F Bolden

OPEC, President

Rostam Ghasemi

OPEC, Secretary-General

Abdallah el-Badri

SAARC, Chairman

Mohammed Waheed Hassan Manik

SAARC, Secretary-General

Ahmed Saleem

UNESCO, Director-General

Irina Bokova (F)

UNICEF, Executive Director

Anthony Lake

United Nations (UN), Secretary-General

Ban Ki Moon

World Bank, Chief Economist

Kaushik Basu

World Bank, President

Jim Yong Kim

World Health Organization (WHO), Director-General

Margaret Chan (F)

World Trade Organization (WTO), Director-General

Pascal Lamy

I hope you will find this list useful. This list was last checked / updated on 18th February 2013.

– Ravi Handa

Ravi Handa, an alumnus of IIT Kharagpur, has been working in the CAT Prep sector for the past 7 years. He currently runs a website for XAT GK Preparation – XATGK.com